Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Jan 1998 00:25:25 -0800 (PST) | From | Jauder Ho <> | Subject | Re: devfs |
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one word.
YUCK.
--Jauder
On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > Pavel Machek writes: > > > Well, I do not like to be devices called like c0b0t0d0s1. > > > > I think that scsi0.0.0.0.1 would be much more acceptable. > > Really, those letters are for nothing, just one more thing > > to remember. If you maintain logical order (and this is logical), > > you do not need ugly letters in between. > > Good idea. Since *.1 names look like libraries and man pages, > it would be best to avoid that. Also, this applies to non-SCSI. > > We also need a simple old-style name and a volume label, > which could be symlinks to the exact physical name. > > This looks good: > > /dev/disk/1-1-1-0-2 # exact physical name > /dev/sdb2 -> disk/1-1-1-0-2 # simple name > /dev/volumes/users_a_to_m -> ../disk/1-1-1-0-2 # volume label > > >
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